Quick-lunch cabinet.



W. E. KELLOGG;

QUICK LUNCH CABINET.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 27, 1909.

Patented Aug. 16, 1910.

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QUICK LUNGH CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 27, 1909.

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ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT "OFFICE.

WILLIAM ELDAD KELLOGG, 0F INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA.

QUICK-LUNCH CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 27, 1909. Serial No. 509,877.

Patented Aug. 16, 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLr'AM ELDAD Kan Loco, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Inglewood, in the county of Los Angeles andbtatc of California, have invented new and useful Improvements inQuick-Lunch Cabinets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to a cabinet for light-housekeeping, the objectof which is to combine in one article of furniture all the facilitiesnecessary for the preparation and serving of a meal, so that personsliving in contracted quarters may be enabled to get their own meals.

A further object is to enable the cooking apparatus and other utensilsto be closed in from sight when not in requisition.

The invention relates to arrangements wherebya stove or other cookingapparatus, normally concealed within a compartment in the cabinet, maybe projected laterally therefrom and there supported for use during thecooking operations, to the relative arrangement of compartments with theview to economy of space and the attainment of the highest degree ofconvenience, and to various details of constructions which will behereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating a preferable embodiment of myinvention, Figure 1 is a perspective View of the cabinet open; Fig. 2 isa vertical longitudinal section through the cabinet with the cookingapparatus compartment open; Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectionthrough the cabinet with the front shelf compartments open, the viewbeing taken on the line 3-3, Fig. 2; Fig. 4. is a vertical longitudinalsection through the cabinet with the cooking apparatus closed; and Fig.5 is a detail perspective of the hinged re 'on of the track.

Reference now being ad to the several views in which like characters ofreference indicate similar parts, it will be seen that the cabinet maybe made in proportions somewhat similar to those of a chifi'onnier; and,while it may be constructed in various sizes, it will preferably occupyabout as much space as one of these articles of furniture. At aconvenient height, that is, about the elevation of an ordinary table,the interior of the cabinet is divided by a horizontal partition 1,beneath which may be located cupboard compartments 2, 3 and suitabledoors 5 and 6.

Above the partition 1 is a compartment 7 for the reception of suitablecooking apparatus, as a gas range 8. Such cooking apparatus is mountedon a platform 9, which slides upon the partition 1, preferably by reasonof wheels 10 running on tracks 11. The compartment 7 opens through one'end of the cabinet, and is adapted to be closed by a suitable door 13.Track sections 14 are hinged to the tracks 11 or to the partition 1, soas to be capable of swinging up and down. When lowered into horizontalposition in alinement with the tracks 11, they are supported by a leg 15pivoted thereto. When raised, the track sections 14 and this leg arereceived in a vertical extension 16 of compartment 7. When the tracksections 14: are lowered to and supported in horizontal position, theplatform 9 may be pulled out thereon, as shown in Fig. 2. Thecompartment? isclosed ermanently In front by a lower vertical wa l 17and an upper vertical wall 18, the latter bein set back from the planeof the former, an the two being connected by a narrow shelf 19. Thisshelf serves admirably to hold the various accessories to the setting ofa table, as salt-cellars, cream pitcher, sugar-bowl, etc. The shelfoverhangs the platform 9, but is not wide enough to interfere with thecooking apparatus supported thereon. A narrow vertical extension 20 ofthe wall 18 closes permanently the front of the extension 16 of thecompartment 7.

A horizontal partition 21 forms the top of the compartment 7, andconstitutes a deep shelf suitable for the reception of 4, closed bydishes. The shelf compartments 22 and 23 thus provided are 0 en infront, and are adapted to be closed y a door 24, hinged at its loweredge, so as to swing downward into horizontal position, where it issustained by suitable braces 25. In this position it constitutes atable, either a dining table or a serving table according to thepleasure of the users.

Above the shelf compartment 23 the cabinet may be provided with smallcompartments containing drawers 26.

It will be 'noted that the shelf 21 terminates short of the door 13,when the latter is closed, and that the wall 27 of the comhavmg acompartment opening through an I plane of the lower wa tracks sup ortedhorizontally in said com-' artment, nged track sections adapted to eswung upward and received behind said door when the latter is closed,means for sustaining said track sections in horizontal position 1nalinement with said tracks, and

a platform adapted-to slide on said tracks and track sections and to bereceived withy in said compartment when the door is closed.

25A cabinet of the character described,

end thereof, a door forclosing the same, a platform for supportingcooking apparatus normally receive withln said com artment and adaptedto be projected out omthe opening thereof, means for sustaining the samewhen so projected, 'lower and upper walls closing the front of saidcompartment, the upper wall being spaced back from the l, a shelfextending tween the top of the lower wall and the bottom of the upperwall, and a door for closing the open, front compartment thus formedabove said shelf and 1n front of the upper wall.

3. A cabinet of the character described,

havmg a compartment opening through an end thereof, a door for closingthe same, a

platform for supporting cooking apparatus normally received within saidcompartment and adapted to be projected out from the opening thereof,means for sustaining the same when so projected, lower and upper wallsclosing the front of said compartment,

- the upper wall being spaced back from the plane of the lower wall,'ashelf extending between the top of the lowerwall and the bottom of theupper wall, a horizontal partition forming the top of said compartmentand constituting a deep shelf above the other shelf, the compartmentsabove the two shelves being open in front, and a door'for closing suchshelf compartments.

4. A cabinet of the character described, having a compartment openingthrough an end thereof, a door for closin the same, a platform forsupporting cookmg apparatus normally received withln said com artmentand adapted to be projected out om the opening thereof, means forsustaining thesame when so projected, lower and upper walls closing thefront of said compartment,

the upper wall being spacql back from thetal partition forming the topof sustaining a compartment above, said plane of the lower wall a shelfextending etween the top of -thelower wall and the bottom of the u per'wall, a horizontal partit1on forming t 0 top of said compartment andconstltutmg a deep shelf above the other shelf, the compartments abovethe two shelves bein ing such s el com artments, said door being hingedat its ower edge to swing down to horiz'ont'alposition to constitute atable, and means for sustaining the same in horizontal position.

v 5. A cablnet of the character described, having a compartment openingthrough an end thereof, a door for c osing the same, a platform forsupporting cookmg apparatus normally received within said com artmentand adapted to be projected out cm the opening thereof, means forsustaining the same when so projected, cupboard compartments'below saidcompartment, lower and upper walls closing the front of said comartmentthe u er wall bein s aced back r 1 the lower 51,

om the plane 0 I a shelf extending between the top of the lower wall andthe bottom of the upper wall a horizons said compartment andconstituting a deep shelf above the other shelf, the com rtments abovethe two'shelves bein open 1n front, a door for closing such she fcompartments, said door being hinged at its lower edgeto swing downwardto horizontal position to constitute a table, and means for sustainingthe same in horizontal position.

6. A cabinet ofthe character described, having a compartment openingthrough a side thereof, a door for closing the same, tracks supportedhorizontally insaid compartment, hinged track sections adapted to eswung upward and received behind said door when the latter is closed,means for said track sections in horizontal position 1n alinement withsaid tracks, a platform adapted to slide on said tracks and tracksections and to be received within said compartment when the door isclosed, a horizontal partition constituting the top of said compartmentand separating the same from artition terminating short of said door wen closed, and a side-wall of said compartment above risin upward fromsuch end of the partition anl s aced back of the door when closed, wherey a shallow-vertical extension of the first-mentioned com artment isformed, said extension being a apted to receive said hinged tracksections when the latter are swung upward.

7. A cabinet of the character described, having a compartment openingthrough a side thereof, said compartment having a vertical extension, adoor for closing said compartment and extension, horizontally arrangedtracks in said compartment, hinged o n in front, a door for clos-v tootrack sections adapted to be extended horizontally outward in alinementwith the said tracks, a support for said track sections pivoted thereto,and a platform for supporting cooking apparatus, the said platform beingnormally received within said compartment and adapted to slide on saidtracks and track sections and to be projected from the compartment, thesaid track sections and the support for the same being adapted to beswung upward into said extension of the compartment when the platform iswithin the compartment.

8. A cabinet of the character described,

' of the lower wa l, a shelf extendin between,

the top of the lower wall and the ottom of the upper wall, and a doorfor closing the open front compartment thus formed above said shelf andin front of the upper wall.

9. A cabinet of the character described, having a compartmentopeningthrough an end thereof, the compartment being provided with an upwardextension, a door for closing the compartment and its extension, aplatform for supporting cooking apparatus normally receive within saidcom artment and adapted to be projected out rom the opening thereof,hinged means for supporting the same when so projected, the said suporting means being adapted to fold into the said compartment extension,lower and upperwalls closing the front of said compartment the u perwall being spaced back from the plane 0 the lower wall, a shelfextending between the top of the lower wall and the bottom of the upperwall, a horizontal partition forming the top of said compartment andconstituting a deep shelf above the other shelf, the compartment abovethe two shelves being open in front, and a door for closing such shelfcompartments. I

10. A cabinet of the character described, having a compartment openingthrough an end thereof and provided with a vertical. extension, a doorfor closing the compartment and the said extension, a platformforsupporting cooking apparatus normally received within said compartmentand adapted to be projected out rom the opening thereof, hinged meansfor supporting the said platform when projected, the said extension ofthe compartment being adapted to receive said hinged means when not inuse, cupboard compartments below said compartment, lower and upper wallsclosing the front of said compartment, the upper wall being spaced backfrom the plane of the lower wall, a shelf extendin between the top ofthe lower wall and the Imttom of 'the upper wall, a horizontal partitionforming the top of said compartment, and constitutmg a deep shelf abovethe other shelf, the compartments above the two shelves bein open infront, a door for closing such she f compartments, said door beinghinged at its lower edge to swin downward tohorizontal position toconstitute a table, and means for sustaining the same in horizontalposition.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM ELDAD KELLOGG. Witnesses:

CLm'roN M. EVERETT, J 0s. GLADDEN.

